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# Run POC workflow
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After the environment is launched and engineers are able to access both tools and data, the POC workload should be run. AWS recommends starting with a simple test to verify functionality and results. From there, you should scale-out to a large number of cores and begin to take advantage of the elasticity of AWS. With on-premises systems you have a fixed number of resources; on AWS you have nearly infinite resources that enable you to scale jobs quickly and significantly reduce your runtime. The results of the POC workload should be compared with on-premises results, to both validate results (consistency) and analyze runtimes.